Speculative and Future Fiction

Daily Archives: March 28, 2006

The nominations for this year’s Hugo awards and John W. Campbell award for Best New Writer have been announced. The awards will be presented at LA Con IV (the 64th World Science Fiction Convention) in Anaheim, Calif., from Aug. 23 to Aug. 27, 2006. Congratulations to Robert Charles Wilson, Robert J. Sawyer, and Cory Doctorow for their nomination.

Novel

Charles Stross – Accelerando

George R.R. Martin – A Feast for Crows

Ken MacLeod – Learning the World

John Scalzi – Old Man’s War

Robert Charles Wilson – Spin

Novella

James Patrick Kelly – Burn

Robert J. Sawyer – Identity Theft

Connie Willis – Inside Job

Ian McDonald – The Little Goddess

Kelly Link – Magic for Beginners

Novelette

Paolo Bacigalupi – The Calorie Man

Cory Doctorow – I, Robot

Howard Waldrop – The King of Where-I-Go

Michael A. Burstein – TelePresence

Peter S. Beagle – Two Hearts

Short Story

Dominic Green – The Clockwork Atom Bomb

Mike Resnick – Down Memory Lane

Michael A. Burstein – Seventy-Five Years

Margo Lanagan – Singing My Sister Down

David D. Levine – Tk’tk’tk

Related Book

Gary Westfahl – Science Fiction Quotations

David Langford – The SEX Column and Other Misprints

Gary K. Wolfe – Soundings: Reviews 1992-1996

Kate Wilhelm – Storyteller: Writing Lessons and More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop

Mike Ashley – Transformations: The Story of the Science Fiction Magazines from 1950 to 1970